The 11th Conference “Odours in the Environment,” organized by the German Association of Engineers (VDI) held on November 18-19, 2025, at the Wyndham Grand Salzburg Conference Centre in Salzburg, Austria, was a successful event. The presentations were of excellent quality, covering a wide range of topics such as odour dispersion modelling, odour emission and ambient air measurements, legal aspects, and practical case studies. The conference featured engaging keynote lectures, workshops, and discussions that attracted experts and professionals from the odour management field.

The Germans have been working for four years now on the new odour regulation included in Annex 7 of the TA Luft (Air Quality Law). This VDI conference addressed many of the questions and cases that have arisen during these four years of the law’s implementation. The number of cases is huge; in fact, three clarifications have already been issued to clarify certain points of the TALuft.

   A new edition of the well-known NOSE2026 International Conference on Environmental Monitoring of Odours and VOCs will take place from 6 to 8 July 2026 in Bologna, Italy, hosted at the Royal Hotel Carlton. This event, organised by AIDIC (Italian Association of Chemical Engineering), is the 10th edition of the conference series and presents a key opportunity for industrial and academic experts globally to exchange the latest advances, technologies, and research in odour and volatile organic compounds monitoring and control.

   The conference program includes plenary lectures by invited speakers, lecture presentations, and poster sessions. It aims to provide a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art developments in environmental odour monitoring and control. The full collection of selected papers will be published in the Chemical Engineering Transactions Journal, indexed by SCOPUS and SCHOLAR, ensuring wide dissemination of the research presented.